Hi Virginia,
I thought that the clip was pretty good.
It is most unfortunate IMO however, that whenever breastfeeding advocates 
are interviewed on informal milk sharing they feel the need to overblow the 
risk and give the impression that human milk is a dangerous, disease-ridden 
substance. It's this sort of thing that results in hospital staff wanting 
biohazard stickers on stored milk and daycare staff refusing to feed 
breastfed babies and mothers and others feeling that human milk is "dirty," 
like faeces. Yes, there are risks but they are small and they are manageable 
and women are capable of making their own decisions. Why can't someone say 
that! No need to make breastfeeding any more suspect than it already is!
It would also be appropriate to make the point that there are significant 
risks associated with using infant formula.
Karleen Gribble
Australia

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The article from Good Morning America talked about a list of infections that 
is somewhat dated.  The old concerns were transmission of syphilis and 
tuberculosis.  In my country (Australia), syphilis has been screened for in 
the routine pregnancy blood tests for generations, and continues today, 
though most mothers are unaware of this.  Pulmonary TB was screened for in a 
national chest x-ray campaign from (about) 1950, depending on the State, and 
was discontinued after about 30 years when very few new cases were 
identified.  Thus, mothers in the 1970s and erly 1980s, at the start of the 
years covered in my new study, had very little risk of transmission of these 
diseases when sharing breastfeeding or EBM with another healthy woman. 
Since then, new cases of TB are apparently related to immigration or 
refugees.

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